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I will hop for two or three hours at a time between remote villages, looping my way to Nyksund, a once-deserted hamlet that has been revived in recent years. From Harstad-Narvik airport I curve ...

Nyksund, Norway is located at 68.59 degrees north (the same latitude as that of Northern Siberia), with nine residents living there year-round. A large fishing community once ‘lived and reigned ...

Nyksund is a tiny Norwegian fishing village abandoned three times in its history. It now has another chance for a new life thanks to an unlikely source. In 1934, a fire devastated the wooden ...

For those of us seeking tranquillity and solitude, Nyksund, a fishing village in the Vesteralen Islands is the place to escape the relentless pace of hectic lives. In the summer months, Nyksund is ...

Many Norwegian fishing villages have been through turbulent cycles of activity, but none more stark than Nyksund. A once thriving destination that was home to hundreds of cod fishermen ...

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Originally from Nyksund, in northern Norway, he’s among the majority of residents who dropped out of conventional life to chase a far-out existence in Svalbard. There is no indigenous population ...

In two weeks’ time, the MS Nyksund, a new high-tech vessel for shipping fish feed will be put into service for BioMar. As part of the process of modernising BioMar’s shipments of fish feed, an ...

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